Thu, 10 Nov - Sun, 13 Nov 2011
Queen Street, Woollahra, Woollahra
Food, music and words lure you to Queen Street as its festival returns.
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 - Sun, 12 Feb 2012
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
A history of Korea via gold, relics and the everyday in this dagger-thin gallery.
Thu, 3 Nov - Sun, 20 Nov 2011
Bondi to Bronte Coast Walk, Bondi
Fifteen years on, sticking art by the ocean is still a big deal. This year's exhibition is bringing back some past glories, overseas artists and local entrants for its anniversary, and it's even shifted the whole thing a week later to allow a viewing by our local Danish royals. Which just means you can check it all the better, as later sunsets drag further and further in the realm of a doable after work adventure. Programs on sale benefit the ongoings of the festival, or you can choose to wander among the art in ignorance. Seeing it all splayed against the skyline, amongst mysterious names and the tide of fellow art lovers, it'll be hard not to find yourself lost in the art with all the extra feeling that comes with an infinity of sea.
Sun, 30 Oct - Sun, 6 Nov 2011
Parramatta Streets and Parks, Parramatta
The end of Diwali brings South Asia to the streets of Sydney.
Thu, 27 Oct, 2011
One of the most powerful people in the world of art comes to Sydney to give you a piece of her mind.
Sun, 30 Oct, 2011
Palace Verona, Paddington
A whole night of verse translated to the big screen.
Tue, 18 Oct - Sat, 29 Oct 2011
Oxford Street and surrounding areas, Darlinghurst
Oxford Street has had all sorts of phases. Starting out as a dirt track, it was done up as a High Street, demolished and widened for the bubonic plague, and home to rent control and slums in the fifties. Migration dominated in the seventies before it grew into the queer heart of Sydney. The Oxford Arts Festival reckons there's life yet in this pan-suburban road, and returns for a second year of filling it with art and performance.
Sat, 15 Oct - Sun, 16 Oct 2011
Heffron Hall, Darlinghurst
Queen Street Studios fits an insider's view of Darlinghurst and Surry Hills through a narrow lens.
Thu, 6 Oct - Tue, 18 Oct 2011
Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
Get cute — but not too cute — at Gaffa's latest offerings.
Sat, 8 Oct - Sun, 16 Oct 2011
Sydney City Streets and Parks, Sydney
Sydney cycling gets a festival all its own.
Sat, 8 Oct - Sun, 16 Oct 2011
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Spring is here, and the weather's notionally improved enough for outdoor sports. With winter receding and some fitful glimpses of the perhaps over-glorious summer to come, one film festival is giving you some excellent reasons to get active outdoors before the local climate is ready for it. This year's Sydney Bicycle Film Festival has a week of screenings, rides, markets and art, weaving in and out of a freshly minted Sydney Rides Festival that promises to take this year's cycling festivities to a truly city wide scale.
Fri, 23 Sep - Sun, 23 Oct 2011
Martin Place, Sydney
Michael Landy connects you to some local moments of grace.
Thu, 6 Oct - Sun, 6 Nov 2011
Cinemas Everywhere, Various locations
Willem Dafoe comes to terms with the Tasmanian wilderness in this adaptation of a novel by Sleeping Beauty director Julia Leigh.
Thu, 6 Oct, 2011
Curious Works, Surry Hills
Sure, you can zag with style and some tremored precision when you're out and about, but what you really want is to dance scruffy, like you do among the lingering curls of steam by the bathroom mirror. Now there's an evening of dance that gets your problem. A homegrown night out that's spawned a worldwide movement which many know, but few have seen. Hosted at Curiousworks, Sydney's inner-city hive of pan-urban storytelling, No Lights No Lycra invites you to dance away the evening with your groove on and the lights off.
Mon, 17 Oct - Sat, 17 Dec 2011
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington
Tokujin Yoshioka brings his ethereal plastic arts to Paddington.
Wed, 5 Oct - Sun, 23 Oct 2011
Alaska Projects, Kings Cross
Alaska Projects opens its new space with an artistic note from the underground.
There's art everywhere, and Concrete Playground's sifted out the best parts of Art & About for you to get to.
Sat, 1 Oct, 2011
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
Some of the world's best short films come to Sydney via the Big Apple.